SUPREME COURTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1326, 11 April 1885, Page 1

SUPREME COURTS.

At the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Thursday, James Jones, for larceny, received twelve months ; Thonoau Watson, for horse-stealing, tweive months ; aud George Broad for horse-stealing, twelve - months. Thomns Edward Price, for perjury, was acquitted. At the Supreme Court, Chiristehurch, on Wednesday, before Mr Jusitice Johnstone, the Grand Jury found true bills in all cases except those of Samuel A'Court, accused of committing grievous bodily h«m, and Cliarles Hawker, aiding and abetting Richard Hawker in union. Throe prisoners were acquitted. They were James Swanson, charged with larceny from the person at Dunsandel; Elizabeth Ireland, accused of committing arson at Leeston, and Ed ward Vaughan for larceny. On Thursday the most, of the time was • occupied with the trial of Austin Tyrtll, John Arthur Cotton, and William Peacock, accused of rape, which lesulted in a verdict of not guilty against the three, it having been elicited for the defence that the womau was to a certain extent a consenting party. Eli Jones, for forging a cheque for £8 ss, was sentenced to two years' hard labor; and William Rhino", for larceny from a dwelling, to eighteen months'. George Barker, an old offender for petty offences, was convicted of robbery with violence from a girl under 14, and was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. At the Supreme Court, Dnnedin, on Wednesday, John Cousens, a-lio stole a-„, watch,, etc., from a prospecting miner from the West Coast iSounds while the latter was in a house of ill-fame, was seut to gaol for 18 months. Robert Nash, a bookbinder, was sentenced to a month for stealing a Douay Bible and illegally pawning it. Janet Oliver, a servant girl, for stea'ing jewellery and a watch from her mistress, got three months. L Hans Hansen, a seaman who stubbed a fellow seaman, pleaded guilty to common assault. He had been in prison for three months. He was not detained beyond the rising of the Court. In a case against James Eastwood and James Myall, for stealnig £lB from a navvy and assaulting him in * back street, the jury could not agree, and were locked up all night,. On 1 hutsday, in tin case of Myall and Eastwood, robbery with violence, the jury wer<« unable to agree and were discharged. Alexander Fleming was acquitted ou the charge of child beating. In sentencing Carrie Fleming, His Honor Bnid : Prisoner, 1 am unable to agree with* the suggestion of your counsel that in flogging these poor children yon acted from an error of judgment only. On the contrary, it seems to me from the depositions and what I have heard to-day that your conduct evinces you were actuated ,by crueltv of mind, and it is fortunate that a charitable neighbor interfered and tried to stop your proceedings. There is no doubt that both the boy and the little child received gross ill-treatment at your hands—ill-treatment which appears to be altogether without justification. Standing in the position which you do to them, it was your special duty to treat them with kindness. The prisoner, who was greatly affected, was then sentenced to two years' imprisonment.